Downloading G700 Firmware Files To Your Tftp Directory; Copying A Bundled Firmware File; Downloading Individual Firmware Files - Avaya G700 Installation Manual

4. Double-click on the GIW Readme file (for example, GIW-2.0-4.README) and save this file
to your laptop.
5. Follow the instructions in the Readme file to install the GIW.

Downloading G700 firmware files to your TFTP directory

To install new firmware for the G700 processors and the media modules, you first need to move
the new firmware files to a directory on the TFTP server. The installation program reads the new
firmware files from this directory on the TFTP server.
Perform one of the two procedures in this section, depending on whether you have a bundled
tar.gz file on a CD or wish to download individual firmware files from the Avaya Support website.

Copying a bundled firmware file

Note:
Your laptop (or the customer's PC) must have WinZip or other file zipping
Note:
software for this procedure.
To copy the tar.gz file from the CD-ROM to your TFTP directory and unzip it
1. Insert the G700 software CD into your laptop or PC CD-ROM drive.
2. Use Windows File Explorer or another file management program to access the files on the
CD-ROM drive.
3. Copy the tar.gz file (G700-11.3-0009.0.tar.gz or similar identifier) to the C:\tftp directory (or
your alternate tftp location).
4. Use winZip or another zipfile tool to unzip the file.
You may need to unzip an additional tar.gz file embedded in the original file. You should
continue to unzip tar.gz files until you see listed files with extensions as shown in the
Table 16: Firmware file formats

Downloading individual firmware files

Download the firmware files from the Web to your TFTP directory
Note:
The sequence of links on the website may be somewhat different than described
Note:
here.
1. Access the www.avaya.com/support website.
on page 372 below.
Before going to the customer site
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